ropriately, I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Everything was in public. Everything was transparent.

So here's the stuff I like. I like to see some fight within a party. Fighting across parties is so normal it's boring and unproductive usually. But fighting within a party, literally with the stated intention of making the party itself stronger with specific rules changes — it took a while to get specific, but once they got there I was impressed. Now I would also say, have the Democrats done a similar thing? And the end result was some rule changes that looked good for America, not just good for Democrats, but would look good for America. Because that's what happened. That's all good. I love the fight. I love the energy. I love the fact that they pushed it as far as they could. And then some of the rule changes — I don't know if these will definitely happen but it looks like, let's see — some of the things they might have agreed with is debate over the debt ceiling, of course, a commitment to voting on specific bills instead of the omnibus. How much do you love that? Voting on specific bills instead of putting them in a big omnibus that is 100 percent of what everyone in the country wanted. Who made that happen? Well, as far as I can tell, the only person who made that happen was pissed off Matt Gaetz, because I'm pretty sure the others would not have held as long without Matt Gaetz being a total maniac about it.

I think Matt Gaetz created a change that every person in the country wanted, and it was really important because we're also observing that the budget process is out of control. I mean if he did that, that's one of the best things that anybody's done in government. Now I also love the fact that Matt Gaetz is smart enough to know that he needed to throw a Hail Mary pass for his own political benefit. In other words, he needed to take a bigger risk than other politicians should or would take because they already were in a good situation so they just don't want to ruin it. He was in a terrible situation because of the last year or two of his drama, which he's now passed but he's still got the stink of it on him. So he did this. And if you were even a little bit objective, he's the congressman of the year so far, right? Say what you will about anything else he's done. I won't even argue with you. But as of today he's congressperson of the year. Agree? If you could just be objective about him as a personality, he did what everybody wanted him to do. Nobody else did.

I mean the others, you know, I'll give credit — oh, Chip Roy. Yeah, let's give equal credit to Chip Roy because I think he went hard at this and he did not have the same risk profile as Gaetz. Yeah, let's maybe not equal but let's give him a nice big share of the credit. The others I think were a little bit more — I don't know, it's just my perception from the outside — but I don't feel like Boebert would have made it happen on her own. It doesn't feel to me that Boebert brought Gaetz along. I could be wrong about that. Maybe I'm just acting sexist or something. But it looked from the outside like Gaetz was the hardcore and the others found some strength in that. That's what it looked like.

So let's see what else. Make it easier to oust the leader. They did that to their own leader. Just think about that. Imagine it from this point of view: imagine you're the Democrats and you just watched the Republicans change the rule so it's easier to replace their own leader. I would be afraid of fighting that party because that's a party who just said now we're serious, right? If you change the rules to make it easier to get rid of your own leader in the middle of a battle, you're a serious party. That's serious stuff, right?

So I love everything about this. And the thing I love best is that — any serious stuff? Sorry, my phone wanted to chime in there. The thing I like best is you saw that there was this little almost a scuffle. Who was it? Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama. The news is saying that he quote lunged at Gaetz. Did you see the video? Did anybody see the video in which he lunged? Did you see a lunge? Did that look like it was going to come to blows? I didn't see a lunge. That's fake news, isn't it? I do believe he meant to get in his face, right? I do believe that Mike Rogers was going to, let's say, express his opinion with some physicality as part of the persuasion. Meaning that probably an aggressive physical approach may have been part of just showing how serious he was. He didn't have a hand up. He wasn't reaching for a throat. He was just moving toward the colleague.

Now what made it look worse is — and I haven't heard the name — who was the guy who held him back? Did you see that? So immediately somebody — and I can't tell if it was security or a colleague — was it security or a colleague? It was Hudson of North Carolina, a colleague. So some colleague, as soon as he starts getting like he's going to do something physical, the colleague grabs him from behind. But instead of holding him by the shoulders or putting an arm around here like you would normally do to a man, the guy who held him back held him back like he put his hand around his mouth and he dragged him by his face away. He covered his mouth and dragged his face away. Okay, may I give you a little bit of advice? Should you ever be in a situation in which you're trying to restrain somebody on your team, somebody who's your colleague who you would like to work with later, don't grab them by the face. Can we all agree on that? No, don't give them the pull. He basically treated him like a six-year-old girl who was yelling in church. I guess you wouldn't even do that to a six-year-old girl. Actually even that would be too far. Yeah, he turned it into a face mask, a hand mask. Don't do that.

All right, so I love that because I love the fact that the energy was so high. I love the fact that Gaetz and this little band of rogues made Congress really care about what was happening. Like you got everybody's energy up to the point where maybe there was some lunging, maybe there wasn't, but at least it's in the conversation. And then the payoff. You ready for this? The payoff after all that. After Matt Gaetz stands literally in front of McCarthy the other day and just absolutely maligns his character and his capabilities right in front of him, like while he's right there in front of the whole world, holds up the thing, he humiliates McCarthy. And what does McCarthy do? He played it completely professionally from start to finish. Wow. Talk about somebody who earned the job. That was a serious good job of earning the job. McCarthy never broke character in public. You know, behind closed doors who knows, but in public he never broke character. He was unflappable exactly. And then after McCarthy finally won, Matt Gaetz shook hands and congratulated him in front of everybody. That, ladies and gentlemen, is America. Hey baby, we're back. Maybe we're back. That's everything good in one place. Congratulations to everybody. I've never liked Congress as much as today. True story. I've never liked Congress as much as today.

I'd love to see — before you know I'm not sure if other people are interpreting it the same way. You know, probably not at all. Well then Hakeem Jeffries did a little speech and got a lot of attention because of his — what would you call this? Not it's not alliteration. It wasn't rhyming, was it? Is it alliteration? Is anybody smart enough to know the right word for that? Preaching? All right, well I'll read you some of his lines because they were so good.

All right, so if you're new to me this will be confusing to you. If anybody drifted in here and has never had this experience before, I do compliment both sides. So if somebody says something good on either side I'm going to call it out, and if somebody does something dumb on either side I'll call that out as well. What Jeffries did was really, really good persuasion. I don't like it but technique-wise, super good. Cadence. Yeah, maybe cadence is the right word. So here are just some of the lines. He said with some work up that what the country needs is to favor Constitution over a cult, freedom over fascism, governing over gaslighting, hopefulness over hatred, knowledge over kangaroo courts, maturity over Mar-a-Lago. And that was like his laugh line: maturity over Mar-a-Lago. That's damn good, Hakeem Jeffries.

I see. I wasn't really understanding why he rose because I haven't been exposed to much of his work, but now I see it. Now I see it. Yeah, he delivered this really well. It was the message the Democrats want to get out there. He somehow managed to frame it like it was about America coming together, which is a good trick. He framed it as hey, let's all come together over these good principles. But really he was just on Republicans. That's good technique, right? You can say it's just reputational or whatever but it's politics and it's a good technique. But this semi-alliteration, maybe using mostly the first letter in each case — governing versus gaslighting for example — you know already that when politicians rhyme, rhyming makes people believe it and remember it like it's more true if it rhymes because our brains are actually that basic. But I think that people will regard this as more legitimate simply because it had this alliteration or whatever it is. So good job.

But you probably noticed that when he got to governing over gaslighting, if you're paying attention at all you know that this is gaslighting, right? You know that this is just gaslighting but he's using the narcissistic projecting. So he's projecting everything that they're doing on the Republicans and then he puts it in this semi-alliteration form and it then makes it sticky.

Now given that Biden did his big January 6 event, what was the point of the January 6 celebration if you can call it that? Memorial event? Well what was it? Wasn't the celebration. What would you call it? Well I don't know, some kind of thing. But you can tell that — yeah he called it July 6, you're so confused — but the January 6 event that Biden put on tells us that he's going to run on that hoax. So he ran successfully on the Charlottesville fine people hoax and there were enough Democrats who believed that really happened that it worked. And now they've created this insurrection narrative. It's all of course — and you could tell that the fact that they're still pushing it long after its usefulness to the country should have dissipated, you could tell that that's going to be their main technique. They're just going to push January 6 because they can't push policy, right? If they go against Trump, let's say it's Biden against Trump, they can't compete on policy. They just don't have that. So they have to move it away from policy to character and they have to move it onto who Trump is somehow uniquely the worst person in the world. And the way they're going to do that they've signaled clearly: they're going to gaslight the country into thinking that there was some kind of armed insurrection and that the country was really in danger. And it might work. It's a strong play. It's all they have. It's a reasonably good play.

Ashley Babbitt's mother just got arrested in DC for jaywalking as part of a memorial thing. But they arrest her for jaywalking? Yeah, she was probably interrupting the flow of traffic but it's just ugly. And you hear that. All right. So that's Biden's plan. So January 6 was really — I think we can conclude at this point, are you willing to conclude that January 6 was an op that was done by the Democrats? I thin